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Brat

• 11.08.09
  No brother in Brother-2
  Aleksey Balabanov, Brat, Gruz 200 (0)

  Some of the commenters at IMDB claim that Brother-2 got bad reviews from Americans because it is anti-American and shows lots of Americans getting killed by the Russian guy. Nonsense. Hollywood has produced a steady diet of anti-American movies for as long as I can remember. And lots of those I see in the previews at movie houses show Americans being gunned down all over the place. In fact, that's the problem with Brat-2. It's too much like an American movie. It also has the same shallow moralizing about materialism that you can get in ...
  
  
• 11.07.09
  Brat-2 fulfils its purpose
  Aleksey Balabanov, Brat, Gruz 200, Ironiya Sudba (0)

  I recognized the above scene near the end of Brat-2. It was from the cover to one of Anna Lawton's books. The main purposes of sequels is to exploit us and disappoint us, I suppose. Brat-2 fulfilled its purpose better than, say, the sequel to Irony of Fate, which while not as good as the original, was worth watching twice, and which I'd like to watch again sometime. After it was over, I was hoping Brat-2 could be excused by having been made by someone other than the maker of the original Brat, but IMDB tells us ...
  
  
• 10.29.09
  Brat
  Brat (0)

  I didn't expect a Russian gangster movie to be this good. After I finished watching Brat (Brother) tonight, I was walking around the house, thinking about what I had seen, wondering why I was attracted to such a violent, repulsive movie. But then it occured to me that this film has some Doestoevsky-like qualities to it. I would guess that I'm not the first person to have said so. The person who did the subtitles didn't have a good command of English. But it probably wouldn't seem right if they were done better. They fit. The one ...
  
  

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